WEBVTT FEW EARLY GUESTS.IF YOU'VE LIVED IN THIS AREA FORA FEW DECADES, YOU KNOW ABOUT THE 17 YEARCICADA AND YOU ALSO PROBABLY KNOW ABOUTTHIS GUY, DOCTOR GENE KRITSKY,ENTOMOLOGIST, CICADA EXPERT, ANDPROFESSOR AT MOUNT SAINT JOSEPHUNIVERSITY.AND THIS MAY, HE IS PREDICTINGSOMETHING SPECIAL. >> WE HAVE THE OFFSPRING OF THECICADAS THAT ACCELERATED IN THEYEAR 2000, PLUS NEWLYACCELERATING CICADAS THAT AREEXPECTED IN FOUR YEARS ALLCOMING OUT TOGETHER.ERIK: ACCORDING TO KRITSKY, THEBIG BROOD OF THE 17 YEAR CICADASWILL HAPPEN IN 2021. BUT THIS YEAR, TWO MORE DISCRETEPOPULATIONS WILL EMERGE AND ITWILL HAPPEN RIGHT ACROSS THEHEART OF THE METRO.>> THOSE CICADAS THAT CAME OUTIN THE YEAR 2000, CAME OUT INPLACES LIKE HYDE PARK, GREENTOWNSHIP, ANDERSON, NEAR WINTONWOODS.THEY CAME OUT IN SUCH NUMBERSTHAT THEY SURVIVED, THEYREPRODUCED, THEY LAID EGGS,THOSE EGGS HATCHED AND THOSE ARETHE OFF-SPRING THAT ARE COMINGOUT THIS YEAR.ERIK: OVERALL KRITSKY EXPECTS AFEW HUNDRED THOUSAND CICADAS TOEMERGE, WITH PEOPLE HEARINGANYWHERE BETWEEN ONE TO FIVECICADAS CALLING AT ONE TIME.A MINOR EVENT WHEN COMPARED TOWHAT IS JUST FOUR YEARS AWAY.>> THE NEXT BIG ONE WILL BE INTHE YEAR 2021, AND LETS CALLTHAT A TEN, THIS ONE WOULDPROBABLY BE A TWO.ERIK: ACCORDING TO DR. KRITSKYTHE CICADAS WILL EMERGE AFTERTHE SOIL TEMPERATURE REACHES ANAVERAGE OF 65 DEGREES AND AFTERRAIN HAS A CHANCE TO LOOSEN UPTHE SOIL.RIGHT NOW IT LOOKS LIKE THAT MAYHAPPEN AS SOON AS EARLY MAY, ASLATE AS THE MIDDLE OF THE MONTH.

Brace yourself, Cincinnati, because cicadas are coming this summer.The bugs will arrive four years early. They were originally expected to emerge in 2021, according to Dr. Gene Kritsky, a professor and chair of biology at Mount St. Josephs University.

CINCINNATI —

Brace yourself, Cincinnati, because cicadas are coming this summer.

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The bugs will arrive four years early. They were originally expected to emerge in 2021, according to Dr. Gene Kritsky, a professor and chair of biology at Mount St. Josephs University.